Eat at Joe’s. In Latham?

The Joe’s Crab Shack chain of restaurants, which does not now have a Capital Region location, is planning to open in Colonie.

Joe’s would build a new 8,180-square-foot building on the Route 2 side of the Latham Farms shopping center, at the 579 Troy-Schenectady Road (map) site that was most recently home to Dakota Steak House. The building that housed Dakota, which closed in July, would be demolished.

Joe’s is a Houston-based seafood chain owned by the Ignite Restaurant Group. The restaurants, typically beach-themed and festive, are often located on waterfronts, but that obviously won’t be the case in Latham.

Joe’s operates about 110 restaurants nationally. The nearest is in South Plainfield, N.J. The company, which has no locations in New England, also has restaurants in the Buffalo and Rochester areas.

The Latham Joe’s would be developed by the GPD Group out of Akron, Ohio. The Colonie Planning Board is scheduled to consider the plan at a 7 p.m. meeting next Tuesday.